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Believing for a Great Year
Greetings, I trust the Christmas and New Year season was a great time of blessing for all of you. Kathy and I spent it in Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada. This is where one of our sons Chris and his family live. It is at the foot of the Canadian Rockies six hours east of Vancouver and four hours west of Calgary. To say it snows is the understatement of the year; it is the snowmobile capital of Canada. People come from all over Canada to snowmobile as well as from many parts of Europe. There were times when the roads in and out were closed to traffic because of snow, ice and the possibility of avalanches. In fact, the day we were supposed to leave in the morning we were not able to get out until 4pm because the Trans Canada highway through Revelstoke was closed, when it opened it was for only 30 minutes and then it closed again, fortunately we made it through. We drove through snow, ice and black ice and fog making the journey very difficult, dangerous and several hours longer than usual. We had a great time with our 3 children and their spouses along with 9 grandchildren. How Chris's wife Alicia put up with everyone was amazing to me.
Kathy and I took the first 3 weeks of January off to rest and recuperate from the previous year of ministry. I had never been so tired. Last year we were in Australia, New-Zealand, USA, Canada, England, Cuba, Peru, Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Bulgaria, El Salvador, Panama and Germany, some of the places more than once. The travel is incredibly tiring particularly when we have to change planes 3 times and stay in airports up to 6 hours to make connections. I can report to you there were great times of ministry as well as a time or two that were rather challenging including when Pastor Dave Olson and I were smuggled into a hospital to visit a leading Pastor and then smuggled out. We then had to find the correct medicines and get them into Cuba to help the healing process after he had major surgery. The Doctor told us they did not have the medicines available and some of these medicines were incredibly expensive. Our friend is recovering but is not out of the woods yet (see the Cuba report below). Last year literally thousands came to Christ in our meetings and there were many notable healings and miracles some attested to by Doctors. I BELIEVE THAT REDEMPTION MEANS WE CAN BE SAVED AND HEALED PHYSICALLY & EMOTIONALLY. God is our healer.
2007 has already started with some great meetings & some challenges.
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